{"id":6738,"date":"2025-09-13T03:08:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=6738"},"modified":"2025-09-13T03:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:08:39","slug":"ethiopia-opens-africas-biggest-dam-despite-neighbors-objections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2025\/09\/13\/ethiopia-opens-africas-biggest-dam-despite-neighbors-objections\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Opens Africa’s Biggest Dam Despite Neighbors’ Objections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link to article: https:\/\/allafrica.com\/view\/group\/main\/main\/id\/00094016.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethiopia has been constructing the new Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam along the Blue Nile river which is a major tributary of the Nile river which starts in Ethiopia at Lake Tana and ends in Khartoum, Sudan where it joins the rest of the Nile river that fully ends in Egypt. This Dam is estimated to be able to supply over 100 million people with over 5000 megawatts of electricity which doubles Ethiopia and surrounding areas current amount. Egypt and Sudan are worried about a potential drought downstream because of this new dam with Sudan’s river having an unexpected amount of water recession. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think that Egypt and Sudan should’ve got some sort of say in the building of the dam because this directly affects them in more ways than I think Ethiopia realizes. I am a big believer in the “not in my backyard” system or maybe more like “not in my house” because I’m ok if there are changes made around my house but if there are issues that are leaving the problem makers area then I’m going to be angry. Egypt’s whole economy historically has revolved around the production that they get from the Nile river. If the Ethiopians dry up the river Egypt’s economy is going to get hurt so much that they won’t care that they’re getting a little extra electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Egypt and Sudan should respond by negotiating with Ethiopia and make it known that they would rather they find a more river friendly solution to a problem they don’t really need to fix because it’s not a problem at all and Ethiopia is only really benefiting themselves while severely hurting their surroundings. Ethiopia should respond to these negotiations by maybe making the dam a little smaller but since that’s very unrealistic they could help them out by releasing water in waves letting Egypt and Sudan know when they’re releasing it and when they should change their agricultural schedules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In class we talked about cobalt and lithium mining and how destructive the mine sites are for the vegetation and land around the mine sites. This relates to Ethiopia because Ethiopia might not notice how bad they’re going to hurt Egypt’s economy the same way these mining companies don’t know how hurt the properties and land around their sites are going to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link to article: https:\/\/allafrica.com\/view\/group\/main\/main\/id\/00094016.html Ethiopia has been constructing the new Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam along the Blue Nile river which is a major tributary of the Nile river which starts in Ethiopia at Lake Tana and ends in Khartoum, Sudan where it joins the rest of the Nile river that fully ends in Egypt. This Dam is estimated to be… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6740,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions\/6740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}